I still look to Scripture to teach me how to respond to difficulty. There is nothing like the pain of a situation or circumstance you cannot control. When hurt is so deep, it takes you to a dependency on God that makes your understanding of “There’s nothing too difficult for Me” take on an entirely TRUE meaning for you. When you measure life by God, you begin to understand how small you are and how big He is, transcendently BIG yet imminently present. The Scriptures hold the answers for those days, even when those days may be your last or seem like forever.
No, I have nothing like that going on. Just as I read Scripture, I realize what a good God, Our Father is. One who sees His children through the life of His Son and trusts us to look to Him when life is unbearably hard. He expects us to know what his word requires of us in these situations. And that we will then we will do it. As Peter says in John 6, "You alone have the words for eternal life. We have come to know and believe you are the Christ, the Son of God."
My heart has been heavy for so many folks lately. I read of struggles on Facebook. Folks share their situations at the Church where Marlon and I fellowship now and Our WA Church family. Folks holding to God when difficulty can be the impetus for despair. Over the years, I knew many who believed, and when the cares of this world grabbed their hearts and difficulty surrounded them, they forgot God. The parable of the sower and the seed rings true with their lives.
My question is, “Where are they going to go?” If there’s no hope in Christ, then there’s no hope at all. Anger, bitterness, and disillusionment grabbed their heart and consumed them. That, with their permission. 😢
I watched folks I loved firsthand become those people.
No matter the struggle, you must measure your expectations of God by his word, not by man’s opinion. Neither by faulty beliefs that don’t bear out in Scripture.
It won’t always look like what you might think. The worse could happen and does. The dreams fade. The person you hope will be healed dies. The cancer returns. The child rebels. The marriage ends and on and on. All yucky but part of a sinful world experience that even being “highly favored” doesn’t protect us from. ❤️
But, is God with his gift of eternal life in His Son enough? That’s the real question. Is He?
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